This Is Proof THEY ARE REAL! Real Footage Of Mythical Creatures Caught On Camera

A pair of long, skinny legs appears to glide across a grassy field in California with no body attached to them. A pale humanoid creature crawls slowly through a quiet backyard in Kentucky late at night. A massive fur-covered figure moves through the deep wilderness of Colorado, and somewhere off the coast of Greenland, a strange webbed hand presses against the window of a research submarine more than a thousand feet below the surface. These are 20 real footage of mythical creatures caught on camera. In July 2022, a security camera at a home in Moorhead, Kentucky recorded something that remains unexplained to this day. The footage shows a pale, almost bone-colored figure moving slowly through a family's backyard at midnight. The creature was thin, completely hairless, and had unusually long limbs. It did not walk like a normal person. It did not run like an animal either. It crawled, and its movement was very strange, difficult to describe until you see it with your own eyes. The homeowner uploaded the video online within a few days, and it went viral almost immediately. Local newspapers reported on the incident as a strange backyard phenomenon, but wildlife officials declined to comment. Some viewers said it looked like an internet urban legend known as The Rake. Others believed it resembled a sick deer trying to stand upright. The most plausible theory is that it was a severely malnourished person or someone experiencing a mental health crisis, wandering through the yard without clothes. However, no one in the area was reported missing, there were no further sightings of any stranger, and the homeowner still insists that nothing unusual happened that night. What do you think this pale crawler actually was? A sick animal? A prank? Or something else? Drop your theory in the comments. The next clip went viral back in the early days of YouTube, long before artificial intelligence video tools existed, which is part of why it still gets brought up today. A father is giving a casual tour of a friend's backyard while his kids point out the spots where they like to play. Everything is ordinary until they reach an apple tree where one of the children notices a small insect resting on a branch. The father zooms in, expecting to see a dragonfly, but what appears on the screen is something else entirely. The body is too structured. The wings move in a pattern that does not match any known flying insect in North America. And for a brief moment, the creature appears to turn its head and look directly at the camera. Skeptics have pointed out that certain moth species, especially the black-waved flannel moth in its caterpillar stage, can look almost unreal in low-resolution footage. But believers argue that no known insect in the region moves the way this one does, and the clip has never been fully debunked. Our third clip comes from a man named Irwin Saunders, a British hobbyist who spent years walking into remote woodlands with a camera in hand, searching for what he called the hidden folk. In this particular video, Saunders walks deep into a quiet forest, and films in near silence for several minutes. Then the pace of his narration shifts. He whispers that something is watching him from a pile of rocks just ahead. He adjusts the camera carefully, and for a brief window of about four seconds, a small creature peeks out from behind the stones. It has a long, pointed face, oddly human eyes, and ducks back out of sight almost as soon as it is seen. Saunders eventually disappeared from the internet entirely, which only made his footage more popular. Many viewers now believe Saunders was actually a talented visual effects artist who used his channel as a personal art project, but others consider his work the modern version of the Cottingley Fairies from 1917. Whatever the truth is, the footage still circulates today, and nobody has ever formally proven it was fake. The fourth clip was recorded on a hotel security camera in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A woman is walking calmly through an empty hallway when her hair is suddenly yanked backward by an invisible force. She stumbles, turns around, sees no one, and quickly walks away. What makes this footage especially unsettling is the location. The hotel was built on the site of the DuPont Plaza Hotel, which burned down on New Year's Eve of 1986 in one of the deadliest hotel fires in United States territory history. Ninety-seven people died that night, most of them trapped inside the lobby and casino as a fireball spread from a storage room in under 45 seconds. The fire was later determined to be intentional, started by three employees during a labor dispute. Since the rebuild, guests and staff have reported unexplained voices, footsteps in empty corridors, and flickering lights in the lobby. The hair-pulling clip is one of the few recorded pieces of evidence from the property, and while a skeptic would say her hair is simply caught on something, the angle of the pull and the speed of the motion are difficult to explain mechanically. Was this a tragic ghost of the DuPont Plaza, or just a trick of the camera? Let's debate this one in the comments. In the 1890s, a land surveyor in Rhinelander, Wisconsin named Eugene Shepard claimed he had encountered a terrifying beast in the forest. He described it as having the head of a frog, the grinning face of an elephant, short thick legs tipped with enormous claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long spiked tail. He named it the Hodag. Shepard claimed he and a group of lumberjacks had to use dynamite to kill the first one, and he released a photo of the charred remains to prove it. A few years later, in 1896, he claimed he had captured a live Hodag by soaking bait in chloroform, and he displayed it at the Oneida County Fair. Visitors paid money to see it shift and growl inside a darkened pen, not realizing that Shepard was controlling it with hidden wires from behind a curtain. The hoax only ended when scientists from the Smithsonian Institution announced they were coming to investigate, at which point Shepard admitted he had invented the entire thing. But by then the damage was done. The Hodag is still the official symbol of Rhinelander today. This footage comes from a rural area in India, where a farmer walked into his field and discovered a giant snake that appeared to have just swallowed one of his cows. Instead of running to get help or calling local authorities, the farmer did something most people would never even consider. He grabbed a length of rope, wrapped it around the massive snake, and hoisted it onto his shoulders as if he were wrestling a bull. The footage spread across the internet almost overnight, and viewers have been debating it ever since. Some believe the snake was a green anaconda that somehow wandered far from its natural habitat in South America. Others think it was a reticulated python, a species known to grow large enough to consume prey the size of a young calf. A small group of commenters insist it is an entirely undocumented species. What makes the video difficult to dismiss is that the farmer himself appears completely unfazed, as if wrestling with an animal of that size is a normal part of his life. Back in 1932, a Swedish hunter named John Johnson claimed that he encountered a living dinosaur deep in the Kasai Valley in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to Johnson, the creature was about 43 feet long, had dark red skin with vertical stripes, and was attacking a rhinoceros when he came across it. He fired his rifle and then ran away. This story became known as the Kasai Rex Dinosaur, and for many decades, it was considered one of the strongest pieces of evidence suggesting that prehistoric reptiles might still exist in the remote regions of Africa. Do you believe prehistoric dinosaurs could still be A group of children in Monterrey, Mexico are practicing soccer drills in a small courtyard, trying to balance a ball on their feet, when something crawls across the background of the shot. It is small, low to the ground, and moves in a way that does not match any common animal. The video was uploaded with a title referring to a duende, which is a small mischievous creature from Spanish and Latin American folklore, roughly knee-high, often described as wearing a pointed hat. Many viewers in the comments swore they could see exactly that on the creature's head in the clip. Skeptics have argued it is almost certainly a small monkey or a coati that wandered into frame. But in the cultural context of northern Mexico, where duende sightings are still reported in rural towns today, the footage hit a nerve in a way a simple animal video never could. In 1917, in a small English village called Cottingley, two young cousins named Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths borrowed Elsie's father's camera and went down to the stream behind their house. When the photographs were developed, the family was stunned. The first image showed Frances surrounded by tiny, winged figures dancing in the grass. The second showed Elsie posing beside a small, gnome-like creature. Elsie's father immediately assumed it was a prank, but her mother believed the girls completely. The photographs eventually reached Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who was at the time deeply invested in spiritualism. Instead of questioning them, he endorsed them. In 1920, he published the photographs in The Strand magazine as genuine proof that fairies existed. The truth did not come out until the early 1980s, more than 60 years later, when both cousins finally admitted that the fairies were cardboard cutouts traced from a children's book and held upright in the grass with hat pins. This video attracted millions of views on Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube, after people claimed that a real dragon had fallen from the sky and was found in a remote area. The original caption stated that it had landed in the city of Magsaysay in the Philippines. Later versions of the same video claimed it was in China, then Mexico, then Yemen. The constantly changing location is often the clearest sign that a viral video is not what it claims to be. In reality, the dragon appears to be a large-scale sculpture created by a local artist. Some reports point to a Filipino artist named Juan as the likely creator of this piece. The craftsmanship is truly impressive, which is exactly why the video continues to fool new viewers every year. In 2012, a man on a motorbike is seen crossing an intersection in China at the exact moment a truck runs through the red light. The collision should have been fatal. Instead, in a single frame, a blinding flash of light appears, and when the image clears, the man and his bike are suddenly standing several feet away, completely unharmed. The truck driver jumps out of the cab looking visibly shaken, clearly searching for a body that is not there. Believers say an angel intervened and physically moved the man to safety. Skeptics eventually trace the video back to a promotional campaign for an online game called Dragon Totem Girl, which used the clip as part of its marketing. Whether or not you accept that explanation, the footage itself is one of the most convincing supernatural videos ever shared online, partly because traffic cameras are not exactly known for their creative editing. The creature is called the Umibozu, which translates roughly to Sea Monk. According to Japanese folklore, the Umibozu is enormous, bald, completely black, and rises from calm water just before it destroys passing ships. Witnesses claim it can stand over 33 feet tall, which is roughly the height of a three-story building. What makes the legend especially eerie is that sailors describe a specific feeling of dread that arrives before the creature does. The water goes still, the wind dies, and then the head appears. Modern scientists have suggested the sightings are misidentified giant jellyfish, rising storm clouds on the horizon, or even the shells of enormous sea turtles surfacing in low light. But commercial fishermen in parts of Japan still refuse to sail when they feel the conditions match. The thirteenth clip is one of the most famous pieces of footage in modern cryptid history. A team filming for Animal Planet was exploring the waters off the northeastern coast of Greenland in a small research submarine when a strange figure swam directly up to the window and placed what looked like a webbed hand against the glass. The clip aired as part of a two-part special called Mermaids, The Body Found, which drew nearly two million viewers on its first broadcast and more than three and a half million for the sequel. What the network did not make especially clear at the time was that the entire program was a docufiction. The scientists were actors. The footage was produced for the show. The backlash was so severe that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a real United States government agency, had to release an official statement confirming that mermaids do not exist. Even knowing all of that, the clip itself still gives most viewers a genuine chill the first time they watch it. This footage was recorded around 2014 in Boa Vista, Brazil, where a passerby captured what appeared to be two glowing angelic figures flying above the clouds over the city. Unlike most cloud illusions, these figures seemed to have distinct wings, clear outlines, and moved in a coordinated pattern. The video gained tens of millions of views within just a few weeks. Most analysts agree that it was created using early computer-generated graphics effects layered over real sky footage, a technique that was common at the time. However, what has kept the footage relevant is not the quality of the effects but the reaction of the person filming, whose voice genuinely trembles with emotion as the figures move across the sky. This footage was recorded at a small lake in Jamaica. It shows the head of a humanoid figure with long black hair emerging from the water briefly before submerging again. The person filming can be heard gasping, and when the creature disappears, he insists that the current in the lake is too strong for any swimmer to resist the way this creature did. Similar stories appear in folklore throughout the Caribbean, in Indonesia, and even along the coast of British Columbia in Canada, where indigenous stories describe merfolk known as Orang Ikan. Most marine biologists believe these sightings are often cases of mistaken identity involving seals or dugongs, both of which can appear surprisingly human-like from certain angles. However, Jamaica does not have native populations of seals in its inland lakes. Do you think this was a mermaid or just a very lost seal? In the next video, a dragon can be seen perched on top of a tall tower. The person filming narrates in a trembling voice as the creature shifts its weight, spreads its wings, and eventually takes off into the air. The wing movements in the footage appear quite realistic. The muscles contract and extend in a way similar to how large birds take flight, and the creature tilts slightly to one side as it leaves the frame. But there is one detail in this footage that exposes the entire truth. The people on the street below show no reaction at all. Cars and motorcycles on the road seem completely unaware of it. If a dragon the size of a small aircraft had actually landed on a tower in the middle of a crowded city, the reaction would have been immediate and chaotic. The Yowie is Australia's version of Bigfoot, described by witnesses as a large, hair-covered humanoid that walks upright through the bush. What makes the Yowie unusual among cryptids is that the community of hunters who search for it have started developing increasingly strange theories to explain why the creature has never been captured on clear film. One theory is that the Yowie is simply too fast and too aware of its surroundings to be caught off guard. Another is that it can sense approaching danger, including wildfires, long before humans can, which is why it always seems to vanish from an area just before disaster strikes. The strangest theory, which has grown in popularity over the last decade, is that the Yowie can move between dimensions, slipping in and out of our reality at will. Zoologists point out that large macropods, which is the family that includes kangaroos and wallabies, can look remarkably human when glimpsed through thick brush at dusk. But for the people who have spent years searching, the interdimensional theory is easier to accept than the possibility that there was never anything there to begin with. This footage was recorded with a low-resolution phone camera inside a mosque in Azerbaijan during evening prayer. The video is blurry, shaky, and only about 12 seconds long. But near the back of the room, a tall, glowing, humanoid figure appears to stand completely still, while the worshippers around it bow and rise in unison. The figure does not move. It does not cast a shadow. And when one of the men turns to look directly at it, the camera suddenly cuts out. Skeptics point to the effect of sunlight passing through dust in the air, which can create the illusion of a glowing human shape under certain lighting conditions. Believers, on the other hand, see the footage exactly as it appears. A moment when something not of this world chose to stand among the faithful for a few silent seconds. Was this a trick of the light through the dust? Or a genuine angelic visitor? This video comes from the small coastal town of Kiryat Yam, Israel, where two friends were filming the sunset when they noticed what they believed to be a seal resting on a cluster of rocks near the shore. When they zoomed in, the figure turned its head, seemed to notice them, then gently slipped into the water and disappeared. The footage became so well known that the town council eventually offered a 1 million dollar reward for any verified evidence of a mermaid. People began traveling from all over Europe just to wait on the beach at sunset, hoping to capture the creature themselves. The reward was never claimed. The two original witnesses never changed their story. And to this day, residents of Kiryat Yam still report occasional sightings of the creature at dusk. The mysterious creature known as the Rake began as a fictional story posted on an online forum in 2004. The original description was simple and specific. A humanoid creature with pale skin, no hair, long limbs, reflective eyes, and a tendency to crouch beside people while they sleep in the middle of the night. It was never meant to be real. But then photos and security camera footage began to appear. In one of the most widely discussed clips in the modern cryptid community, a man in a suburban area decided to investigate a strange feeling he had near the side of his house. He walked around the corner with his camera recording, and for just a moment, a pale figure appeared from behind the wall before disappearing from view. It showed up two more times, each for less than a second, before vanishing completely. Some versions of Rake footage have been traced back to marketing campaigns for horror video games. Other videos have been identified as April Fool's pranks, but a small number of clips, including the one filmed in the backyard, remain unexplained. Which clip do you think is the hardest to explain? And which one is the most obviously fake? Leave your answer in the comments below. And if you have a personal story or footage from your own life that you have never been able to explain, I would love to hear you share it. And if you enjoyed this analysis, the next video I want to recommend is one where I go deeper into the unresolved footage that I had to cut from this list, including three clips that genuinely kept me up all night while editing them. You can watch it on the screen now. Thank you for watching, and I will see you in the next video.